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1918 - 0428.PDF
Hi_j£2i'sas£ra APRIL 18, 1918. ' AN excellent opening offers for doing a really good turnfor those splendid men who, having fought the Empire's battles in the air, have been temporarily placed hors de combat as aconsequence of their daring deeds against the Hun. In the new Royal Flying Corps Hospital at Hampstead lie a numberof these brave fellows in various stages of trouble, and Surgeon Graeme Anderson, R.N., who is looking after their welfare,is anxious to procure an Aeolian Bocalien cabinet gramaphone to help relieve the monotony of the patient patients' livesduring their temporary inaction. The cost of the instrument is about £50, and herein lies the chance of some generousbenefactor to fill this very desirable want or head a sub- scription list for the purpose of presenting one of these cabinetsto the hospital. " FLIGHT " will gladly receive any contri-butions to this end, and acknowledge them in these columns. They should be addressed to The Editor and R.F.C.H. Fund. THE Editor of " FLIGHT " opens the fund with 105 shillings. Who will be the first to increase the amount by further shilling subscriptions ? So many pilots have lately been " losing their way " so frequently over Swiss territory as to make it very embarrassing for this neutral little republic. Therefore, according to a statement in the German press, the Swiss General Staff has notified all the belligerent military authorities that signal rockets are now sent up whenever a belligerent airman by mistake invades Swiss territory. Airmen thus warned are supposed to " turn back " without unnecessary delay. So Sawatis Tawanladah, the " chief " of the famous IroquoisIndians of Canada and of five other North American tribes, has passed away to his happy hunting grounds. LastJanuary.it will be remembered, in this column we mentioned this Indian chief and the fact of his joining up with theR.F.C. in this country. Now it is announced that Lieut. John Randolph Stacey—which was Sawatis Tawanladah'sname in the British army—was killed in a flying accident at Hounslow last Monday. And so passes away another of the ancient links of the past, through the medium of the most modern science of the age. BY the offer of the Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y.,to provide without charge temporary accommodation for an army school of aerial photography, where a thousandmen can be trained every month, a great step forward has been made in helping our American Allies to efficiency.Incidentally such generous behaviour should carry its own reward when normal times return. Mr. Baker, the U.S. Secre-tary for War, has accepted the offer, and it is hoped that 4,000 to 5,000 men will be trained before August, when the workwill be transferred to a permanent school. WHAT aircraft has compelled in the movements of troopspreparatory to any great offensive is brought into pro- minence in an article from the front by the special cor-respondent of the Times, on Tuesday last. Speaking of the extraordinary precautions necessitated by the untiringwork of the Allies' aircraft, it has, the correspondent points out, become definitely known from staff orders capturedthat the great number of the divisions which the enemy were able to throw into their offensive, had to be transferred fromother parts of the front and rear to the scene of operations by night. On arriving at each successive stage of their marchthe different regiments were ordered to appoint police patrols, whose duty was to guard in every way against detection byaircraft, to camouflage all vehicles and prevent any formation of groups of men in the streets or roads during the day. Withthe same object, a medical inspection was carried out company by company by the regimental surgeon, instead of all the sickof the regiment going to his quarters. No units were allowed to move by day. No bivouac fires were allowed, and alllights had to be carefully concealed. Any transgression, on which airmen were to report, was to be severely punished. A DEFINITE statement in Parliament from the Postmaster-General last week that it is not proposed to establish an ex- perimental postal aerial service in this country at present, as Two views of a four-engined Sikorsky biplane. 426 -From '• Fiugsport,
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